Kind Hearts and Coronets

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Continuing his narration, Louis (Dennis Price) attends the funeral of one of his victims, and thereby sees many more d'Ascoynes (all of whom are Alec Guinness) together, in this scene with camera tricks from Kind Hearts And Coronets, 1949.

Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price, also narrating) meets his first two d'Ascoynes (all of whom are Alec Guinness) along his comical murderous quest, in Kind Hearts And Coronets, 1949.

Dennis Price (narrating, and as "Louis Mazzini") meets two Alec's Guinnes, the elderly banker d'Ascoyne and young Henry d'Ascoyne, in this scene from the Ealing Studios black comedy Kind Hearts And Coronets, 1949.

Imprisoned Louis (Dennis Price), about to be hanged, begins his recounting of his killing of all the d'Ascoynes, in this early scene from Kind Hearts And Coronets, 1949, directed by Robert Hamer.

A young man murders his way up the family tree, each member played by Alec Guinness, in the ultimate British comedy, Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949).